WEBVTT IN GREENSBORO, BILL O’NEIL, WXII 12 NEWS. KENNY: IN WINSTON-SALEM, A RESTAURANT IS CLOSED INDEFINITELY WHILE FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND CUSTOMERS MOURN THE DEATH OF ZITO PIZZERIA AND GRILL’S OWNER. ACCORDING TO POLICE, 60-YEAR-OLD EVANGELOS MANGINAS WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A DRIVER WHILE CROSSING THE STREET ON HEALY DRIVE, NOT FAR FROM THE RESTAURANT. OUR KIRSTEN GUTIERREZ SAT DOWN WITH HIS DAUGHTER, WHO SAYS SHE WITNESSED THE WHOLE THING. >> HE WAS SO KIND, SO LOVING. VERY, VERY SACRIFICIAL AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY LOVED HIM AS WELL AND CARED FOR HIM. KIRSTEN: EVANGELOS MANGINAS, A LOVING FATHER OF SIX AND THE OWNER OF ZITO PIZZERIA AND GRILL, WORKED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY. >> JUST THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING HE DID. KIRSTEN: HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT JUST TRYING TO FILL AN ORDER THEY DIDN’T HAVE ON HAND. >> HE IS LIKE, DON’T TELL THEM, I AM GOING TO GO ACROSS THE STREET TO GRAB SOME. I’LL BE RIGHT BACK. SO HE WENT ACROSS THE STREET. HE GOES THROUGH THE BACK. HE HAD A KEY TO THEIR PLACE. AND, WELL, HE DIDN’T MAKE IT ACROSS. KIRSTEN: HIS DAUGHTER VICTORIA JUST RETURNED FROM A DELIVERY WHEN SHE SAW SOMEONE GET HIT BY A CAR WHILE CROSSING HEALY DRIVE. >> I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS MY DAD. KIRSTEN: TURNS OUT, THE PERSON SHE SAW WAS THE MAN WHO TAUGHT HER EVERYTHING SHE KNOWS. >> I WAS JUST IN SHOCK. KIRSTEN: AS FOR THE DRIVER WHO HIT HIM, 7:03-7:12 HOW CAN YOU BE ANGRY? IF IT WAS IN REVERSE WOULD I WANT TO HIM HER FATHER? NO WAY. BUT IT’S AN ACCIDENT. YOU JUST HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU’RE DRIVING NO MATTER WHAT. KIRSTEN: VICTORIA SAYS HER DAD LOVED AND RESPECTED EVERYONE, A TRAIT SHE WANTS TO KEEP ALIVE WHEN SHE TAKES OVER THE BUSINESS. >> WE ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO COME BACK. THIS IS MY FATHER’S LEGACY. WE HAVE TO COME BACK IN MEMORY OF HIM. KIRSTEN: IN WINSTON-SALEM, KIRSTEN GUTIERREZ, WXII 12 NEWS. KENNY: VICTORIA ALSO ADDS THAT ZITO’S WILL BE CLOSED THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AS THE FAMILY GRIEVES. THEY DO PLAN TO OPEN THE

When Zito Pizzeria and Grill in Winston-Salem reopens in a few weeks, it will be with heavy hearts.

Restaurant owner Evangelos Manginas, 60, was struck and killed by a car in the 3200 block of Healy Drive just before 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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“He was so kind, so loving, very, very sacrificial and, you know, a lot of people really loved him as well and cared for him,” the victim’s daughter, Victoria Manginas, said.

Evangelos Manginas was a loving father of six who worked his whole life to provide for his family.

“Just thank you for everything he did,” Victoria Manginas said.

Evangelos Manginas’ life was cut short while trying to fill an order for something the restaurant did not have on hand.

“He’s, like, ‘That’s OK. Don’t tell them 'no.' I’m going across the street to grab some. I’ll be right back.’ So, he went across the street. He goes through the back. He had a key to their place and, well, he didn’t make it across,” Victoria Manginas said.

She had just gotten back from a delivery when she saw someone get hit by a car while crossing Healy Drive.

“I didn’t think it was my dad,” Victoria Manginas said. “By the time I went over, you know, I saw that this man was wearing the same shirt my dad was wearing, plaid jeans. As I got closer, I was, like, 'God, please don’t tell me that’s what it is.' So I came back to the kitchen through the back way to see if my father was here. I didn’t see him in the kitchen, I asked the guys in the back, 'Where’s my dad?' And they said, 'He just ran across the street to get something from the market.'”

The person Victoria Manginas saw get hit was the man who taught her everything she knows.

“I was just in shock,” she said.

The Manginas family said they are praying for the driver who hit him and those in her car at the time of the accident.

“How can you be angry? If it was in reverse, would I want to hit her father? No way. But it’s an accident. You just have to be careful when you’re driving, no matter what,” Victoria Manginas said.

She said her father loved and respected everyone.

“Doesn’t matter if you’re poor, doesn’t matter if you looked weird or if you were rich or if you were anything, he gave everyone the same amount of respect. So that’s something that everyone should take away and should know,” Victoria Manginas said.

She said Zito Pizzeria and Grill will be closed for the next few weeks but she does plan to reopen the business in her father’s honor.

“We’re definitely going to come back, You know, this is my father’s legacy. We have to come back in memory of him,” Victoria Manginas said.

Family and friends are flying to Texas for the funeral scheduled for this week. Evangelos Manginas belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church and wanted to be buried in a monastery in Texas.

Right now, the driver who hit and killed Evangelos Manginas has not been charged. An investigation is still underway.